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		1123581321 on Nov 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before new... That’s a very broad and speculative reading. Insider trading is about regulating the securities market, not about keeping all transactions by the insider information-balanced.

sfifs on Nov 21, 2018 [–]

Or as Matt Levine says - it is about theft (ie trading on stolen information) not about fairness

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